Amid the celebration of Thursday’s opening of the Marcus Garvey Amphitheatre in Queen’s Park, the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration strongly objected to the location of the new cultural space, even as it welcomed the honour in the name of the Jamaican Black nationalist leader.General Secretary David Denny insisted in a video statement posted on Facebook that the theatre should not be in a national park that is named after a member of Britain’s royal family, Queen Victoria.“And that is because of the thinking and also because of the philosophy of Marcus Moziah Garvey. Garvey was a black revolutionary who defended African people in Africa and the Americas. Garvey built a black conscious movement for African people and for our liberation and I think if we want to honour Garvey, we should honour him with respect. So to place Marcus Moziah Garvey in Queen’s Park which is named after Queen Victoria of the royal family would be an insult.”
